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george w. bush, say my name. i'm joined by e.j. dionne, msnbc contributor, washington post columnist and author of the book "our divided political heart." i figured beyonce was one of your favorites so i threw her in there. >> i feel your pain, too, michael. i really do. >> thank you, e.j. bill clinton is given a marquee primetime role at the convention. that's a no-brainer for many. george w. bush endorsed romney in an elevator. is this a tale of two conventions? >> it's a tale of two presidencies. in the 16 years before barack obama took office, we had two presidents, and yes you ask the question, which one is very popular. you showed the 66%. which one had his term end in prosperity, not economic collapse, and which one balanced the budget? the answer is clinton. it's not surprising that democrats pull clinton out and i guess the republicans want president bush to cut some more brush down on his ranch in texas. but i think what's really interesting here is how prominent a role the obama team decided to give bill clinton. i for o
george w. bush, say my name. i'm joined by e.j. dionne, msnbc contributor, washington post columnist and author of the book "our divided political heart." i figured beyonce was one of your favorites so i threw her in there. >> i feel your pain, too, michael. i really do. >> thank you, e.j. bill clinton is given a marquee primetime role at the convention. that's a no-brainer for many. george w. bush endorsed romney in an elevator. is this a tale of two conventions? >>...
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he thinks george w. bush was doing it right. and that's where he wants to take the country and the world, back to the george w. bush way of doing things. >> so what if the guy threw a eschew at me? >> the fact is simply this, that being the president of the united states is not just a domestic management position that the romney campaign might wish it were. the president of the united states is in fact important to the rest of the world. in fact, for citizens in many countries, he may have more direct life or death decision making power over them than he does over americans. because he's less fettered by congress and federalism as his role in commander in chief. that means the world tour of an americankened dt for president is not just a beauty pageant. very well might not matter in terms of the vote count back home in november, but a president or presidential candidate's presence overseas is substantive. and mitt romney's decision to embrace the george w. bush version of american foreign policy might give america watchers pause
he thinks george w. bush was doing it right. and that's where he wants to take the country and the world, back to the george w. bush way of doing things. >> so what if the guy threw a eschew at me? >> the fact is simply this, that being the president of the united states is not just a domestic management position that the romney campaign might wish it were. the president of the united states is in fact important to the rest of the world. in fact, for citizens in many countries, he...
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george w. bush, record spending increases. record unemployment. record job losses. the fact of the matter is, while we would like the recovery to be happening faster, unemployment is lower now than it's been in three years, home foreclosures are now lower now before president obama took office. the direction is clear, we need to move forward and the need the republican party to reclaim their party from the radical tea party republicans who would rather kill our economy in order to score points in this election rather than move forward. >> it may be a tough sale for voters to say that the economy is doing as well as you point out. >> look, this is hard. the economy is moving in a better direction than it was. but it needs the acceleration needs to happen and that requires both parties to work together for common good. >> you know, governor o'malley, you raised something that i want to raise with governor jindal. something that the democrats are going to talk a lot about. voters still aren't sure who mitt romney is, there were two articles, vanity fair took a look at
george w. bush, record spending increases. record unemployment. record job losses. the fact of the matter is, while we would like the recovery to be happening faster, unemployment is lower now than it's been in three years, home foreclosures are now lower now before president obama took office. the direction is clear, we need to move forward and the need the republican party to reclaim their party from the radical tea party republicans who would rather kill our economy in order to score points...
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but compare that to his father who released 12 year of tax returns and george w. bush, who released 17 years worth of financial details. having offered a bare minimum, we then learned that mr. romney asked for an extension, which means we're unlikely to learn anything about that until just before or after the election. he seems to want to live by the letter of the law, but not by spirit. here's how he put it when talking about his tax returns this year. >> i pay all the tacks that are legal taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more. >> i pay all the taxes that are legally required. eugene robinson put it so eloquently, in making his money, romney appears to take every imaginable inch that the law arguably allows. but slowly and surely, we started to learn more about this candidate's investments. that he had swiss bank accounts. that he's placeded money offshore in the cayman islands and now, we're learning about an offshore company in bermuda called high yield asset investors limited, that has been invisible for almost 15 years. who knows what else we'
but compare that to his father who released 12 year of tax returns and george w. bush, who released 17 years worth of financial details. having offered a bare minimum, we then learned that mr. romney asked for an extension, which means we're unlikely to learn anything about that until just before or after the election. he seems to want to live by the letter of the law, but not by spirit. here's how he put it when talking about his tax returns this year. >> i pay all the tacks that are...
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george w. bush got 42% of the hispanic vote in 2004. mitt romney on the other hands, in terms of policy, he's trying to appeal to the public by proposing his immigration policy. he calls it self deportation. he's promising to follow the lead of arizona, of all places, for national immigration law. that sort of outreach has earned him an appeal with hispanic voters that is, look at that, 40 points below president obama. he's even down 18 points from what george w. bush did with hispanic voters. the romney campaign is trying to move the hispanic voters. want to know how? they released this ad yesterday. it features mitt romney's son craig speaking spanish. that's something. how much fire power is the romney campaign putting behind the ad? reportedly they are putting up $10,000 for that ad buy in raleigh, north carolina. $10,000 which is 1 million cents. just for comparison. here's the amount the romney campaign is putting behind the latest obama is a lying liar right now just in north carolina. so the hispanic outreach ad, that will appar
george w. bush got 42% of the hispanic vote in 2004. mitt romney on the other hands, in terms of policy, he's trying to appeal to the public by proposing his immigration policy. he calls it self deportation. he's promising to follow the lead of arizona, of all places, for national immigration law. that sort of outreach has earned him an appeal with hispanic voters that is, look at that, 40 points below president obama. he's even down 18 points from what george w. bush did with hispanic voters....
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george w. bush did it as a candidate but then went several years without showing up at the naacp as president. >> yes, he did. i remember. he went in 2000 and never appeared again. >> yeah. i think -- i at tend he may have appeared at the naacp group. yeah, you are right. basically, though, a lot of antipathy built up over the years because of that. romney is making the outreach. he gets points for that. he also is running against the first black president. and so the fact he shows up as important. he made good points. i thought the idea of school choice is a great issue to go after the black vote with because democrats are tied to the futures union, opposed to anything involved in choice. rank and file, black folks like it. the problem was, you know, once again, he had the words but not the music. i think -- you know. in that way he -- he didn't win a lot of black votes today. >> part of romney's problem is, one, he's mitt romney. also, he's the presumptive nominee of a party that by generally
george w. bush did it as a candidate but then went several years without showing up at the naacp as president. >> yes, he did. i remember. he went in 2000 and never appeared again. >> yeah. i think -- i at tend he may have appeared at the naacp group. yeah, you are right. basically, though, a lot of antipathy built up over the years because of that. romney is making the outreach. he gets points for that. he also is running against the first black president. and so the fact he shows...
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it wasn't too long ago when i believe it was senator obama complaining that george w. bush thought 200 or 300,000 jobs added was a good number. this is 80,000 jobs. this cannot be spun as good news for americans. >> it's not good news for america. let's recall though that obama made that complaint before we suffered the biggest financial crisis in american history, you know, after the wall street crash of 1929. we lost 9 million jobs as a result of that crisis when obama took office, we were hemorrhaging 700,000 jobs a month. unemployment hit 10%. so in many ways we have come a long way. we haven't lost any jobs in the last two years. we are making progress. clearly not enough progress. in retrospect that stimulus was not nearly big enough in 2009. that american jobs act that the president tried to pass last september should have been enacted by congress. we're paying the price for that. >> laura: as far as can i tell, the president blame shifts a lot. i really did not hear any evidence that the president is taking any responsibility for this economy. it's either europ
it wasn't too long ago when i believe it was senator obama complaining that george w. bush thought 200 or 300,000 jobs added was a good number. this is 80,000 jobs. this cannot be spun as good news for americans. >> it's not good news for america. let's recall though that obama made that complaint before we suffered the biggest financial crisis in american history, you know, after the wall street crash of 1929. we lost 9 million jobs as a result of that crisis when obama took office, we...
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president clinton, george w. bush and obama have all refused. in the 2008 campaign, mr. obama declared his support for jerusalem as the israeli capital, but didn't preclude negotiations. romney himself has declined to criticize the president while abroad, but he unloaded on him earlier this week. >> president obama is fond of lecturing israel's leaders. he was even caught by a microphone deriding them. >> some saw the timing of the ceremony, a day before romney travels to israel, as an efforts to upstage him. democrats denied him. >> that's not true at all because it's john boehner and eric cantor who set the time frame for this. >> polls give the president a substantial lead over mitt romney among jewish voters, but not nearly as big as the lead he enjoyed over john mccain. the romney camp hopes just reducing the advantage will help change the outcome in november. brett? >> bret: wendell goler, thank you. the opening ceremony for the summer olympics is going on right now in london. more than 10,000 athletes from 200 countries will compete in 34 venues. attendance is exp
president clinton, george w. bush and obama have all refused. in the 2008 campaign, mr. obama declared his support for jerusalem as the israeli capital, but didn't preclude negotiations. romney himself has declined to criticize the president while abroad, but he unloaded on him earlier this week. >> president obama is fond of lecturing israel's leaders. he was even caught by a microphone deriding them. >> some saw the timing of the ceremony, a day before romney travels to israel, as...
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w. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this wednesday, july the 18th, there's a lot to tell you about. including a dire warning from the fed chairman who says the fiscal cliff on the horizon could send the united states back into another recession. plus i don't know what you were doing about, i don't know, six hours ago, but i was prom dancing with kelly copowski. i should probably explain. and i will. a little bit later in this show. but first let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. today mitt romney will hold a town hall in bowling green, ohio. a state he hopes to win in a couple of months and not far from there former florida governor jeb bush and governor bobby jindal, a sleeper on the veep list, of louisiana, will also stump in ohio. as the campaign tries to regain control of the national conversation that has gotten away from it. all romney campaign's efforts to refocus things, the chorus calling for him to release more of his tax ret
w. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this wednesday, july the 18th, there's a lot to tell you about. including a dire warning from the fed chairman who says the fiscal cliff on the horizon could send the united states back into another recession. plus i don't know what you were doing about, i don't know, six hours ago, but i was prom dancing with kelly copowski. i should probably explain. and i will. a little bit later in this show. but first let's get to the news live at 5:30...
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but the top marginal rate was 39 when president george w. bush came in. cut to 35. i think if we get good deficit reduction, bringing it to 35, i think that helps the economy. >> greta: looking at that and i want to talk to you about health care. but i am curious about the tax question, i see it in the health care and the tax are targeted at a certain economic strat a. i am curious, how much additional revenue -- if you know -- will be in the treasury if the taxes go up as to people who make $250 thrnd or more i. income tax or the health care? >> greta: income. >> the income over a 10- >> greta: one-year period? >> with 10, it's $3... $150 billion for one year. >> greta: one year. i did a little research. that's about -- it costs $10 billion a day to run the federal government. so that's a 15-day, you are asking for 15 days. >> it's a drop in the bucket. here's some other things. we should find a way to fairly restrain entitlement spending, this is a personal view. i think that medicare benefits should not vest until later for younger workers, i would say that if a
but the top marginal rate was 39 when president george w. bush came in. cut to 35. i think if we get good deficit reduction, bringing it to 35, i think that helps the economy. >> greta: looking at that and i want to talk to you about health care. but i am curious about the tax question, i see it in the health care and the tax are targeted at a certain economic strat a. i am curious, how much additional revenue -- if you know -- will be in the treasury if the taxes go up as to people who...
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george w. bush spent like a wild man in his eight years in office and he did embrace the entitlement culture to some extent. but the whole philosophy of barack obama and the democratic party is that this is the just society going from 6% welfare to 35% in 50 years that's a good thing it's going to strengthen the country. >> i don't think anyone is saying that democrats would like to get more money into the economy. put money into people's pockets and spend the. >> bill: give it to me. >> not give it. moody's reported the economists, not a left wing publication that says for every dollar that's spent on food stamps, 1.72 comes into the economy. every dollar spent on unemployment -- 63 goes -- >> bill: i don't care about that because what the united states is doing right now to pay the food stamps and everything else is they are printing money. which, in the long run is going to erode. >> it's putting money back into the economy. >> it's putting bogus money back into the economy. >> also you ment
george w. bush spent like a wild man in his eight years in office and he did embrace the entitlement culture to some extent. but the whole philosophy of barack obama and the democratic party is that this is the just society going from 6% welfare to 35% in 50 years that's a good thing it's going to strengthen the country. >> i don't think anyone is saying that democrats would like to get more money into the economy. put money into people's pockets and spend the. >> bill: give it to...
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w. if somebody can afford insurance and decides not to buy it and then they get sick, they ought to pay their own way opposed to expecting government to pay their way. that's an american principle. that's a personal responsibility. so i said this, if you can afford to buy insurance, then buy it. you don't have to. if you don't want to. but put enough money aside to pay your own way. what we're not going to do is say, as we -- >> tax penalties. >> which they look like. if people can afford to buy it, buy it or pay your own way. don't be free riders and pass on the cost of your health care to everybody else. >> the government is going to make you buy insurance -- >> fred thompson failed as a presidential candidate but he was 100% successful in pinning mitt romney down like he was a not quite dead butterfly on the issue that totally plummets his presidential campaign. this year. just like in 2008 when he was running against the likes of fred thompson. you heard mitt romney there saying that
w. if somebody can afford insurance and decides not to buy it and then they get sick, they ought to pay their own way opposed to expecting government to pay their way. that's an american principle. that's a personal responsibility. so i said this, if you can afford to buy insurance, then buy it. you don't have to. if you don't want to. but put enough money aside to pay your own way. what we're not going to do is say, as we -- >> tax penalties. >> which they look like. if people can...
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who do you blame for the economic recovery, obama, congress, at the bottom is george w. bush. they can't blame george w. bush anymore. >> you will never grow the obamacare looming and dodd-frank and cap and trade. if you wanted to grow the economy, elect a new president. >> you mentioned tax megedon, he is putting a huge destructive force in place. >> sean: there is an unknown percentage of people that have been so impacted by these bad economic decisions they are going out in force. this is about their family and their future and their loss of wealth. we'll see. good to see you. >> sean: as always. that is all the time we have left. greta is in colorado to go on the record. greta, take it away. >> greta: bizarre look at the accused mass murder in the movie theater massacre. >> you have the right to be represented by an attorney if you could not afford one under statutory guidelines at no cost to yourself. it must be voluntarily and not under coercion. typically you have a right to be advised of the charges. you have a right to be advised of the charges. they made a preliminar
who do you blame for the economic recovery, obama, congress, at the bottom is george w. bush. they can't blame george w. bush anymore. >> you will never grow the obamacare looming and dodd-frank and cap and trade. if you wanted to grow the economy, elect a new president. >> you mentioned tax megedon, he is putting a huge destructive force in place. >> sean: there is an unknown percentage of people that have been so impacted by these bad economic decisions they are going out in...
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in the words of george w. bush, you don't forget poland. but how do you go on your big presidential trip as a presidential candidate and not going to afghanistan? how do you not go to where we're still at war? in an interview today with brian williams, he turned down the opportunity to criticize the president on foreign policy, being on foreign soil and what not. but if you compare mitt romney's foreign policy and obama's foreign policy, you see mitt is very good at used the tough-sounding words but is less good at differentiating himself from the president. joining us now is spencer ackman, national security writer, a friend of mine, and somebody who has dug deep into romney's foreign policy. good to see you. you wrote a great piece today, and the kite title was "the five things we learned about how mitt romney would run the world." number one is he seems to run the world when it comes to afghanistan, egypt, and iran a lot like obama is running the world. >> a lot like if romney hired obama's aides but they had nothing but bad things to sa
in the words of george w. bush, you don't forget poland. but how do you go on your big presidential trip as a presidential candidate and not going to afghanistan? how do you not go to where we're still at war? in an interview today with brian williams, he turned down the opportunity to criticize the president on foreign policy, being on foreign soil and what not. but if you compare mitt romney's foreign policy and obama's foreign policy, you see mitt is very good at used the tough-sounding...
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at the same time vice president cheney and george w. bush are announcing plans to not be there at mr. romney's convention, the democrats announced a key note primetime high profile speaking spot for their convention for the democrat's last president, bill clinton. do you see any advantage in one of those two very different approaches to these parties' recent governing past and the republicans pretending they don't have a recent governing past and the democrats so boldly embracing clinton. >> he's a been asset for democrats in part bause mitt romney is going out on the stump and deriding barack obama by making a contrast to bill clinton. saying under bill clinton, we followed one set of pollys and things worked out better than under obama. first, theolicies weren't all that different, more importantly, he's going to be the keynote at the convention and set the tone and make the economic argument that he can make better than almost anybody else in american politics. that's a big advantage. the bush and cheney decisions aren't too much of
at the same time vice president cheney and george w. bush are announcing plans to not be there at mr. romney's convention, the democrats announced a key note primetime high profile speaking spot for their convention for the democrat's last president, bill clinton. do you see any advantage in one of those two very different approaches to these parties' recent governing past and the republicans pretending they don't have a recent governing past and the democrats so boldly embracing clinton....
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it's not like the enthusiasm for george w. bush. >>> stay with us. the day's top lines are coming up. chances are, you're not me of money, so don't overpay for motorcycle insurance. geico, see how much you could save. >>> clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. here are today's top lines. >> if i were to loan you this to display here at the white house -- >> this will never go up in the white house. >> oh, it looks good on you though. >> my speculation about who mitt romney will choose as running mate, so it's fair to ask. >> that's a clown question, bro. >> a guy named joe biden. >> america runs on dunkin'. >> about dogs on top of cars, bain capital, bank account in the caymans. >> is it your belief that it's unpatriotic for someone to have a swiss bank account? >> if you are running for president is that the american people know and that you're an open book. >> should he release the tax returns? >> i would. >> that's been true of every presidential candidating back to mr. romney's father. >> i've had to face some hard truths tonight, billy.
it's not like the enthusiasm for george w. bush. >>> stay with us. the day's top lines are coming up. chances are, you're not me of money, so don't overpay for motorcycle insurance. geico, see how much you could save. >>> clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. here are today's top lines. >> if i were to loan you this to display here at the white house -- >> this will never go up in the white house. >> oh, it looks good on you though. >> my...
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w. >> greta: that is almost impossible. unthinkable. i realize that is a small amount of the entire cost. so unbelievably insane to take taxpayer money and do something like that. >> it is a blatant abuse. >> greta: you you say blatant abuse. i say stealing. i think it is just worse than a flagrant abuse. >> and they came back to me and said do you want us to not have conferences all together? >> absolutely. but if you have a legitimate reason to have a conference you have 14,000 vacant buildings under gsa they could be holding a conference in. hold it in one of the national parks. but to have the different types of vacations all around the nation is unacceptable. >> greta: what were the awards for? >> we are doing an investigation right now. the investigator investigating the ig office is coming back with a full report of everything the they fining andw many other of the vacations and trips that happened. >> greta: speaking of vacant buildings. a new lease the gsa has signed. 1 world tr
w. >> greta: that is almost impossible. unthinkable. i realize that is a small amount of the entire cost. so unbelievably insane to take taxpayer money and do something like that. >> it is a blatant abuse. >> greta: you you say blatant abuse. i say stealing. i think it is just worse than a flagrant abuse. >> and they came back to me and said do you want us to not have conferences all together? >> absolutely. but if you have a legitimate reason to have a conference...
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w. so the business people and the american people are sitting on the sidelines, month after month after month, hoping for some guidance. >> that's why i don't want to wait. we don't need to be up against the deadline in order to act. but if i can't get harry reid to sit down and negotiate or the president to sit down and negotiate, i am not going to negotiate with myself. >>> the bill in the senate, essentially adds about -- it's enough to finance the government for 8 days, approximately. the tax rate go back to where it was for people making over $250,000 a year. any thoughts on funding the other 357 days out of the year? that's only 8 days. >> listen, this is why we need to extend the tax rates. you are just kidding yourself. the american people don't need to be paying higher taxes at a time when our economy is not doing well. you know, the president is running around, campaigning, avoiding sitting down with his own jobs council. he hasn't met with them for over six months. if you look
w. so the business people and the american people are sitting on the sidelines, month after month after month, hoping for some guidance. >> that's why i don't want to wait. we don't need to be up against the deadline in order to act. but if i can't get harry reid to sit down and negotiate or the president to sit down and negotiate, i am not going to negotiate with myself. >>> the bill in the senate, essentially adds about -- it's enough to finance the government for 8 days,...
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in 2004, republican george w. bush won re-election with 5 5.7%. president obama six-month unemployment rate average this year is at 8.2%. higher than any of the predecessors in 30 years. >>> construction employment, a major part of the economy stalled out in june. however, as chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel explains there is a lot more to the troubling numbers. >> president obama signed the $105 billion transportation package in to law late today. funding construction jobs. he said would otherwise be lost. >> this bill will keep thousands of construction workers on the job, rebuilding our nation's infrastructure. >> the legislation will fund road and transit project through the end of fiscal 2014. allowing state transportation departments to go forward with major infrastructure projects. though an industry economist says it may only stop job losses. >> you are not going to see immediate jump in highway employment. at least firms may hang on to workers whom otherwise they would have had to lay off. >> construction sector is the harde
in 2004, republican george w. bush won re-election with 5 5.7%. president obama six-month unemployment rate average this year is at 8.2%. higher than any of the predecessors in 30 years. >>> construction employment, a major part of the economy stalled out in june. however, as chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel explains there is a lot more to the troubling numbers. >> president obama signed the $105 billion transportation package in to law late today. funding...
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that is up slightly from last year and higher than president george w. bush's last year in office in 2008. the staff salaries totaled $33 million and 447 employees. if you are in the market for a new career, you might want to think about calligraphy. schools may abandon cursive writing in class but the white house chief calligrapher makes almost $97,000 a year. that is something to write home about. >>> the former environmental protection agency official who was caught on tape comparing the agent enforcement philosophy for oil and gas to ancient rome found a new gig. he resigned in april after his crucifyed comments became public. he will now work as part of the sierra club beyond coal campaign. oklahoma republican senator inhoff whose office first publicized the comment sent out a tongue and cheek congratulations. he said -- he won't get in trouble for the true agenda to kill oil, gas and coal. another citizen that thinks 911 is customer service hotline. we told you last month a connecticut man called emergency dispatchers to complain his sandwich order
that is up slightly from last year and higher than president george w. bush's last year in office in 2008. the staff salaries totaled $33 million and 447 employees. if you are in the market for a new career, you might want to think about calligraphy. schools may abandon cursive writing in class but the white house chief calligrapher makes almost $97,000 a year. that is something to write home about. >>> the former environmental protection agency official who was caught on tape...
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, to president clinton, to george w. bush. the united states has always played a very, very important role as a mediator in that conflict. and, again, and it totally contradicts what he said before about the obama administration not doing enough. so it just seems like this guy is incapable of making mistakes. and you hear a lot of the republicans saying, although he is getting criticized by some republicans, you hear a lot of republicans saying this doesn't matter. i think it does because americans care how they're represented abroad. >> go ahead. >> i just have to jump in about this. i think this is not a good moment for romney, and it just sort of suggest he is not ready for the world stage. but i'm not sure how much american voters care about being embarrassed on the world stage. i mean we did elect george bush twice. and he wasn't exactly, you know, a good ambassador for american culture. i mean he was kind of the typical -- in some ways i think people were proud of his being an ugly american. so i'm not sure how muc
, to president clinton, to george w. bush. the united states has always played a very, very important role as a mediator in that conflict. and, again, and it totally contradicts what he said before about the obama administration not doing enough. so it just seems like this guy is incapable of making mistakes. and you hear a lot of the republicans saying, although he is getting criticized by some republicans, you hear a lot of republicans saying this doesn't matter. i think it does because...
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but that wing was discredited with the iraq war under george w. bush and certainly from a pure political position is not popular. so if he wants to go overseas and talk like he's dick cheney, i don't think you would believe that would be good politics for him, do you? >> i don't know if he would go over and speak like dick cheney. we do need a strong foreign policy and not so much to be liked in the world, we need to be predictable. what is it americans stand for? what will we do. i don't buy this idea of american imperialism or dominance, we're dominant because we're the largest, a third of the world people and produce a fourth of the wealth. that allows us to have a voluntary army of men and women, greatest technology in the world. that's bought and paid for with our system, one -- >> uncritical celebration in america does not equal pride in america. the recognition there's flaws and missteps is not a recognition it's not great, it acknowledges your denial. >> i'm not denying anything. >> i can't give awe history lesson here in a few seconds, yo
but that wing was discredited with the iraq war under george w. bush and certainly from a pure political position is not popular. so if he wants to go overseas and talk like he's dick cheney, i don't think you would believe that would be good politics for him, do you? >> i don't know if he would go over and speak like dick cheney. we do need a strong foreign policy and not so much to be liked in the world, we need to be predictable. what is it americans stand for? what will we do. i don't...
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. >> bill: the way i see this george w. bush had almost the same thing that people liked bush the younger, even when his policies on iraq and the economy were going south. they still separated his job performance from the man. and it seems like they are doing the same thing with barack obama. you know, he comes across as very accessible and kind of a certainly not an intimidating man. he keeps his composure almost always. so, while you are saying yeah, that his policy and his view of what american capitalism should be and i agree with that i think he made an enormous mistake saying that entrepreneurs really weren't responsible for their own success, i think that the folks are separating the policy from the guy. do you disagree. >> they always do that to the president. as you said, george bush had high ratings until the last maybe five or six weeks. and i think that's happening to the president. as he tries to walk away from what he just said, i think he is going to hurt himself even more. and you know he is saying he didn't
. >> bill: the way i see this george w. bush had almost the same thing that people liked bush the younger, even when his policies on iraq and the economy were going south. they still separated his job performance from the man. and it seems like they are doing the same thing with barack obama. you know, he comes across as very accessible and kind of a certainly not an intimidating man. he keeps his composure almost always. so, while you are saying yeah, that his policy and his view of what...
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write a column that praises george w. bush. very narrowly and specifically. but, you know, the big international aids conference has been held in washington all week and it -- and the tone is much more positive and optimistic than in previous conferences about finally getting, you know, some day ending this epidemic. and one person who will have played a big part in that is george w. bush, who decided in 2003, under no pressure to do so, to spend billions and billions of dollars providing anti-retroviral drugs to africa, to victims in countries in africa that could not afford the sort of treatment when he started this program, it's called president's emergency plan for aids relief, only 50,000 people in -- on the continent of africa, epicenter of the aids epidemic, 50,000 were receiving these life saving drugs, and right now, the total is something like 8 million with 4 million people being directly provided drugs through this u.s. program that george wfrmts bush started. it is, i think, in my opinion, the best thing he did as president. it showed that the un
write a column that praises george w. bush. very narrowly and specifically. but, you know, the big international aids conference has been held in washington all week and it -- and the tone is much more positive and optimistic than in previous conferences about finally getting, you know, some day ending this epidemic. and one person who will have played a big part in that is george w. bush, who decided in 2003, under no pressure to do so, to spend billions and billions of dollars providing...
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george w. bush, a guy who is very likable one-on-one just doesn't like politics. and mitt romney has been showing that he doesn't have the touch. he's picked great britain, israel and poland, three countries that have three different completely different reasons to not like barack obama and to embrace mitt romney and he seemed to bungle those three trips. >> yeah, it's true, joe. i think your point is very well taken. people like politicians who seem to like what they're doing, who are having a good time, who can drag them along and say, come on, this is going to be fun, we're going to turn the country around. i think both candidates do lack that. they almost seem strained when they're out campaigning, like they're being forced to take their medicine. that's a very, very important point. second, this is august and you say will they remember these one incident, two incidents from this trip? it begins to pile up. after a while they just say, god, what's going on here? and the candidate almost becomes a caricature and i think mitt romney is not quite there yet but fa
george w. bush, a guy who is very likable one-on-one just doesn't like politics. and mitt romney has been showing that he doesn't have the touch. he's picked great britain, israel and poland, three countries that have three different completely different reasons to not like barack obama and to embrace mitt romney and he seemed to bungle those three trips. >> yeah, it's true, joe. i think your point is very well taken. people like politicians who seem to like what they're doing, who are...
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barack obama didn't run for president as the jeremiah wright candidate and george w. bush didn't run on his service in the national guard. but romney is a one trick pony. the only calling card he has for the presidency is his time in business." has his chief asset, that meaning governor romney, now turned into a liability? >> clearly, the liability in the last 48 hours. i disagree with my friend, david corn, because i think romney can put this behind him. my hope is at 6:00 tonight he will put it behind. his surrogates and his campaign, he can answer questions satisfactory to the american people. i think once that's done, then obama has no way to go to retread it. this narrative that obama wants is fit for them. most voters may not care about this. they want to know that whoever their next president is does have a real plan for prosperity, a real plan to return jobs and all of this other stuff is sort of a sideshow. the president has been successful in creating a big question mark about romney on this issue. all he has to do is have the question mark at the margins in
barack obama didn't run for president as the jeremiah wright candidate and george w. bush didn't run on his service in the national guard. but romney is a one trick pony. the only calling card he has for the presidency is his time in business." has his chief asset, that meaning governor romney, now turned into a liability? >> clearly, the liability in the last 48 hours. i disagree with my friend, david corn, because i think romney can put this behind him. my hope is at 6:00 tonight...
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saw lisa sylvester showed him as a senate candidate saying it was a scandal with george w. bush. here is reasons, virginia, north carolina, ohio, michigan, colorado, and i could go on. >> this could be more about congressional democrats saying that the president, also by the way, we would be in such danger of losing our senate seats and losing our house seats if you put us on the spot on this. this is not only at the presidential level, at the congressional level. >> mitt romney speaking in reno on national security today. >> the president's policies made it harder to recover from the deepest recession in 70 years. expose the military to cuts that no one can justify. compromised our national security secrets. [ applause ] and in dealings with other nations, he has given trust where it is not earned, insult where it was not deserved, and apology where it is not due. >> vice president biden quickly issuing a statement calling it empty rhetoric. >> this election is going to be decided on the economy. every challenger, nonincumbent has to prove themselves. some is optic, some their w
saw lisa sylvester showed him as a senate candidate saying it was a scandal with george w. bush. here is reasons, virginia, north carolina, ohio, michigan, colorado, and i could go on. >> this could be more about congressional democrats saying that the president, also by the way, we would be in such danger of losing our senate seats and losing our house seats if you put us on the spot on this. this is not only at the presidential level, at the congressional level. >> mitt romney...